All mainline distros now ship with kernels which support TPM and 99% of the machines likely to run their games have it onboard. From there on they can implement an authentication scheme based on PKI and machine keys (or user keys signed by the machine one).
In fact it is way easier than on Windows XP where you have to "hide" parts of your auth. On linux you can leave the entire thing in the open, supply source, publish the algorithm and it will still be unbreakable due to the underlying cryptography being unbreakable (via practical means).
The first cars to break through the 100km/h barrier as well as the first cars to break through the 100mph barrier were electric. They also crashed nicely on quite a few occasions. If it was not for the first world war which rapidly accelerated petrol engine development and allowed it to overtake the electric and steam competition we would have been all riding in electric vehicles today.
You are looking at the wrong budget. This is an item which civil defence, MChS or the like can stock in quantity and it is not very expensive by their standards. They cannot stock water in quantity and even if they do they cannot transport it in sufficient quantity to the disaster zone. In fact, compared to the current portable water purification equipment this is not bad value for the money. For example - a reverse osmosis kit capable of several 100ml per minute with prefilter, pump and generator to drive it will put you back a cool 5000-10000. If you have to throw in a in-flow UV disinfectant - add 2000+ further. It will also eat a significant amount of consumables - activated charcoal, filters, resins etc which you have to ship with it (all in all you end up with a helicopter drop per location). On top of that you have to protect the unit from the crowd stampeding over it. So add some troups and the machine gun for that. On top of that you have to stock spare parts and have people capable of maintaining the units in the field. On top of that... When you compare both options the filter bottle starts looking very tempting to any civil defence planner.
Personal observations. All photos which showed any of the Be200ES, 6 or so Mi26, 2 Mi 8 or 5 Ka32 which have been there since the beginning of the summer lived at most 15 minutes on the site. After that the photo sequence for "fires in Greece" was changed with the offending photos being excorsized. Further to this, despite being the second largest firefighting fleet in operation (after Greece own aging Canadairs), they got 0 mention in all articles after this one: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6917002.stm.
That is besides the fact that the plane shown in this one was in Bulgaria (which also contained its wildfires) and went to Serbia, not to Greece. Serbia, surprise, surprise managed to contain its fires. Actually not surprising considering that compared to this monster any other firefighting kit out there is a child's toy. Same as with the bomb actually - from the "mine is bigger" series.
As far as the fires this summer - just search the web (and gootube). It is full of pictures and videos.
36 tons vs 40 in favour of Tu 160 for internal bay capacity.
What you are thinking is total payload including hardpoints where B1-B can get more as it has some. It is however restricted by arms treaties and has limited usability. This is only 1.5 times more and the radar profile and aerodynamics go straight to hell in the process.
I agree, Tu 160 does not have anything to do with that. Now TU-22M Backfire is a completely different matter. It was designed as an antifleet weapon, built as an antifleet weapon and is still considered by the USA to be the most dangerous antifleet weapon in the Russian arms inventory.
Tu 160 was conceived as a response to the XB-70 Valkyrie, not the Lancer. In fact the design predates the Lancer by a couple of years. This noticeable by the spec - it is a true superpersonic bomber with 2.2+ Mach capability (Lancer just about does 1.1M) . So in this particular case it may be the USA copying USSR and not vice versa.
As far as using a Tu 160 to perform in this dick measurement contest, this is sabre rattling.
The bomb is under 10 tons so it can perfectly fit in a TU 95 Bear. The sole reason for using a White Swan to drop it was to show off.
Do we like it or not the cold war is back and sabre rattling is in full swing. This is just one example. Plenty of others - the bomber patrols, BBC exorcising with extreme prejudice any footage and any mentioning of Russian fire fighter planes during the Greek fires this summer and so on.
Actually yes. You forget another mantra "I love standards, so many to chose from".
I suspect that they have learned the lesson from SOAP that having an interoperable standard does not necessarily decrease business. It increases it if the standard complexity is above a certain threshold.
So some of them have seen the light of more revenue on the horizon already. It is a matter of the rest of the company following suit.
The article is missing some bits that are of interest here.
Was the employee German or it was all happening in the USA? If the employee was German, was the policy compliant to German privacy legislation and were the employees correctly informed about it and warned about its enforcement as required by German (and EU) legislation?
Based on personal experience with Americans rolling out nannyware around Y2K I somehow suspect that none of that was done and if the employee was not in the USA and not American the logs were inadmissible as evidence for an employee tribunal. This was the general state of the industry around Y2K and is still the state in many USA companies operating abroad.
Further to this, I am a great fan of the maxima: do not start a fight unless you bloody well want to finish it. So if the guy raised the alarm at all he should have followed it through. The excuse about slump seems pretty lame to me. A settlement in a constructive dismissal for leaving due to company accepting child porn as normal behaviour would have probably net him more money than his salary all the way through the slump. So I suspect he simply did not have the evidence correctly untainted to be used in Germany in the first place.
Pigs can fly. It is a matter of applying sufficient thrust.
It is a matter of contention ratio.
An average office has a contention ratio of 1:100 for server access and it still works. A WLAN contended to 1:100 will not work. So you have to upgrade your porcine fleet with higher thrust engines. You do that by rolling out a big wireless switch and many small accesspoints under its control each of which has a contention ratio of under 1:10. At that contention ratio deployments for anything more than 10PCs is uneconomical.
This is all of course if we leave the security aside. But that is another story.
1. Low power. 2. Hard to purify. The isomers really screw up the quality of the product and getting rid of them in non-industrial environment is cumbersome. The unpurified product is unstable and dangerous to handle. 3. Harder to produce than a number of higher power explosives (Hexogen aka T4 comes to mind). 4. Even if they restrict the search on the Internet any University library will contain everything needed for the purpose and any chemistry major can give it to you anyway as most of these are standard reactions 5. The chap is a "Prodotti di Berlusconi" (I apologise for my bad Italian). Idiots begat more idiots. Ignore and move along.
NC4000 does not. ALI chipset as well.Overheat if you run a kernel compile and halt. In fact it is so bad that it cannot complete a full debian sarge install. I had to do a minimal install and put a custom kernel with working p4_clockmod before continuing.
Same for NC6000 and most other 2001-2006 business notebooks. Every single P4 or PentiumM based one I have tested during that period failed thermally under Linux if you ran it on ACPI alone.
As thermal tolerances differ from model to model your mileage may vary. In your case you ended up on the better side. This is rare.
Politics were the most popular topic for a drunken conversation around the table in the ex-Soviet Union.
Political jokes constituted roughly 60-70% of all humour floating around. We had jokes about the fact that Brezhnev jokes cannot exist because they violate the fundamental universal constraint on the speed of light by travelling from one end of Moscow to another instantaneously.
The situation in other ex-Warsaw block countries like Bulgaria was not any different. It went even further. Everyone was grumbling, taking the piss of the system, moaning complaining, telling political jokes. Nobody was even considering rebelling or doing something proactive against the government.
Add to that that a lot of the literature and "formally allowed" humour like stand up comedians at the time had a lot of politics and very serious political satire inside.
For example on the subject of what you are mentioning - scientists taking the piss of the system - just read "Monday starts on Saturday". That is present in plenty of books from that period. "Monday starts on Saturday" and "Snail on a Slope" by the Strugatcki brothers come to mind as a perfect example.
Similarly people like Okudzhava, Zhvanecki, etc wrote all kinds of stuff that was taking the piss of the system and that was sang by people, shown in theatres and some of that even shown on TV.
What the "socialists" do not tolerate is open rebellion. That they squash straight away. They let the people grumble and vent steam (within limits) because if they clamp on that the chances for open rebellion increase dramatically. They do not have the resources to clamp on all of that either.
Further to this, organising something like Tian-an-Men Square or the student strikes nowdays requires money and is usually supported by foreign resource. Been there, seen that in the ex-Soviet block. Never got my hands dirty with it though (probably should have). If China does a good job of following all suitcases with money flowing into the country prior to the Olimpics they will not need to worry about any troubles.
I will add to that - if you cannot get the statement from them in writing - record it. Tell them why you are recording and tell them that if they refuse it to be recorded you would put the refusal on record as well. It is usually enough to put a recorder on the table to bring some sanity in the game.
The only store where this does not work in the UK is Tesco. The rumour is that their managers are trained to push the case all the way to trading standards in the hope that the consumer drops it on the way.
Fair point. XP doesn't though. Neither do linux distros in their default settings except apparently the latest Suse install which I have not tested myself and which is likely not to have support for the most recent centrino chipsets anyway. For example - I have an 6 months old HP and the speedstep is not recognised by 2.6.21 so I have to use the standard p4_clockmod instead.
A laptop should still cool properly with the lid closed.
In theory, this mode of failure should be still under warranty because on a docking station a laptop operates at full blast (no power savings) and with the lid closed.
None of them has proper cooling in this mode. Most dissipate a significant proportion of the heat through the keyboard. I have seen Sony keyboards being literally fried by the heat from working on a docking station. So nowdays if I get a docking station from IT my first reaction is to dispose of it and replace it with a Fellowes stand so I can reuse the laptop LCD as a monitor as well.
The only way to deal with UK retailers like this is - you pull a recorder on the table and ask for the statement to be recorded for "Trading Standards purposes". No threats, not screams, no arguments. This is enough to get them into sane mode. Same for phone calls and similar for email. While I have not had that with PC World I have had similar dealings with Misco and others and the magic TS words usually works.
Overall, while IMO the laptop should be warrantied against such failure, specifically in the Linux case the warranty may indeed be void. The reason is that the power management on Linux by default has no thermal feedback. On Centrino derived laptops under Winhoze it does and it will throttle the CPU frequency if the laptop is overly hot (even if you turn the power savings off). I do not see it damaging the case though, it will most likely fry the keyboard membrane.
I did not know that Nevada is a rogue state part of the axis of evil and poses a strategic threat to USA interests.
On a more serious note if you are someone line Korea you have to be aware of Chinese satellites, Russian satellites, Indian satellites, French satellites, Japanese satellites and British satellites besides USA satellites. For locations like Bushehr in Iran and some "interesting" places in Pakistan, Korea, China, etc this probably gives a nearly 24h coverage.
But American companies operating in foreign countries are bound by LOCAL laws. Does American government and legal system like it or not is irrelevant.
Considering the way modern phone calls are routed I would not be surprised if this was tapped on Level3, Global Crossing or someone's else network in Germany or while delivering a call from Germany to Germany. From there on it is subject to German privacy legislation and the American company in question by violating it has forfeighted the terms of its telecoms license and its right to operate its network which it has built at a cost of 5-10 billion.
While I can understand your aim to be funny, you have missed the basic issue in question in its entirety.
Missed one more. Both entities to the conversation as per the announcement are OUTSIDE USA borders.
Did NSA use its newly acquired wiretap "cooperation" powers to make a USA company franchise operating under German jurisdiction conduct a wiretap in American favour of GERMAN internal traffic without permission under German law?
Hiding nowdays is a bit of a moot point. There are enough satellites up there to give a nearly 24h round the clock coverage for the more interesting locations.
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They do not even need that.
All mainline distros now ship with kernels which support TPM and 99% of the machines likely to run their games have it onboard. From there on they can implement an authentication scheme based on PKI and machine keys (or user keys signed by the machine one).
In fact it is way easier than on Windows XP where you have to "hide" parts of your auth. On linux you can leave the entire thing in the open, supply source, publish the algorithm and it will still be unbreakable due to the underlying cryptography being unbreakable (via practical means).
Both had happened before.
The first cars to break through the 100km/h barrier as well as the first cars to break through the 100mph barrier were electric. They also crashed nicely on quite a few occasions. If it was not for the first world war which rapidly accelerated petrol engine development and allowed it to overtake the electric and steam competition we would have been all riding in electric vehicles today.
No. The momentum gathered from sunlight points in one direction, the laser in another and you are going wherever the vector sum leads you.
You are looking at the wrong budget.
This is an item which civil defence, MChS or the like can stock in quantity and it is not very expensive by their standards. They cannot stock water in quantity and even if they do they cannot transport it in sufficient quantity to the disaster zone. In fact, compared to the current portable water purification equipment this is not bad value for the money.
For example - a reverse osmosis kit capable of several 100ml per minute with prefilter, pump and generator to drive it will put you back a cool 5000-10000. If you have to throw in a in-flow UV disinfectant - add 2000+ further. It will also eat a significant amount of consumables - activated charcoal, filters, resins etc which you have to ship with it (all in all you end up with a helicopter drop per location). On top of that you have to protect the unit from the crowd stampeding over it. So add some troups and the machine gun for that. On top of that you have to stock spare parts and have people capable of maintaining the units in the field. On top of that...
When you compare both options the filter bottle starts looking very tempting to any civil defence planner.
There is an old chemical observation usually attributed to the arab alchemists of the middle ages.
"Like dissolves in like".
Considering that their greatest friend and ally was known as Tony Bliar waddaya expect?
Personal observations. All photos which showed any of the Be200ES, 6 or so Mi26, 2 Mi 8 or 5 Ka32 which have been there since the beginning of the summer lived at most 15 minutes on the site. After that the photo sequence for "fires in Greece" was changed with the offending photos being excorsized. Further to this, despite being the second largest firefighting fleet in operation (after Greece own aging Canadairs), they got 0 mention in all articles after this one: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6917002.stm.
That is besides the fact that the plane shown in this one was in Bulgaria (which also contained its wildfires) and went to Serbia, not to Greece. Serbia, surprise, surprise managed to contain its fires. Actually not surprising considering that compared to this monster any other firefighting kit out there is a child's toy. Same as with the bomb actually - from the "mine is bigger" series.
As far as the fires this summer - just search the web (and gootube). It is full of pictures and videos.
36 tons vs 40 in favour of Tu 160 for internal bay capacity.
What you are thinking is total payload including hardpoints where B1-B can get more as it has some. It is however restricted by arms treaties and has limited usability. This is only 1.5 times more and the radar profile and aerodynamics go straight to hell in the process.
I agree, Tu 160 does not have anything to do with that. Now TU-22M Backfire is a completely different matter. It was designed as an antifleet weapon, built as an antifleet weapon and is still considered by the USA to be the most dangerous antifleet weapon in the Russian arms inventory.
As far as what is feasible to attack with what here is a nice diagram: http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/bomber/range.gif
As you can see most of USA is within range even without considering the use of cruise missiles.
Tu 160 was conceived as a response to the XB-70 Valkyrie, not the Lancer. In fact the design predates the Lancer by a couple of years. This noticeable by the spec - it is a true superpersonic bomber with 2.2+ Mach capability (Lancer just about does 1.1M) . So in this particular case it may be the USA copying USSR and not vice versa.
As far as using a Tu 160 to perform in this dick measurement contest, this is sabre rattling.
The bomb is under 10 tons so it can perfectly fit in a TU 95 Bear. The sole reason for using a White Swan to drop it was to show off.
Do we like it or not the cold war is back and sabre rattling is in full swing. This is just one example. Plenty of others - the bomber patrols, BBC exorcising with extreme prejudice any footage and any mentioning of Russian fire fighter planes during the Greek fires this summer and so on.
For Microsoft - definitely interoperable. Just compare it to their other stuff.
Actually yes. You forget another mantra "I love standards, so many to chose from".
I suspect that they have learned the lesson from SOAP that having an interoperable standard does not necessarily decrease business. It increases it if the standard complexity is above a certain threshold.
So some of them have seen the light of more revenue on the horizon already. It is a matter of the rest of the company following suit.
The article is missing some bits that are of interest here.
Was the employee German or it was all happening in the USA? If the employee was German, was the policy compliant to German privacy legislation and were the employees correctly informed about it and warned about its enforcement as required by German (and EU) legislation?
Based on personal experience with Americans rolling out nannyware around Y2K I somehow suspect that none of that was done and if the employee was not in the USA and not American the logs were inadmissible as evidence for an employee tribunal. This was the general state of the industry around Y2K and is still the state in many USA companies operating abroad.
Further to this, I am a great fan of the maxima: do not start a fight unless you bloody well want to finish it. So if the guy raised the alarm at all he should have followed it through. The excuse about slump seems pretty lame to me. A settlement in a constructive dismissal for leaving due to company accepting child porn as normal behaviour would have probably net him more money than his salary all the way through the slump. So I suspect he simply did not have the evidence correctly untainted to be used in Germany in the first place.
Pigs can fly. It is a matter of applying sufficient thrust.
It is a matter of contention ratio.
An average office has a contention ratio of 1:100 for server access and it still works. A WLAN contended to 1:100 will not work. So you have to upgrade your porcine fleet with higher thrust engines. You do that by rolling out a big wireless switch and many small accesspoints under its control each of which has a contention ratio of under 1:10. At that contention ratio deployments for anything more than 10PCs is uneconomical.
This is all of course if we leave the security aside. But that is another story.
1. Low power.
2. Hard to purify. The isomers really screw up the quality of the product and getting rid of them in non-industrial environment is cumbersome. The unpurified product is unstable and dangerous to handle.
3. Harder to produce than a number of higher power explosives (Hexogen aka T4 comes to mind).
4. Even if they restrict the search on the Internet any University library will contain everything needed for the purpose and any chemistry major can give it to you anyway as most of these are standard reactions
5. The chap is a "Prodotti di Berlusconi" (I apologise for my bad Italian). Idiots begat more idiots. Ignore and move along.
NC4000 does not. ALI chipset as well.Overheat if you run a kernel compile and halt. In fact it is so bad that it cannot complete a full debian sarge install. I had to do a minimal install and put a custom kernel with working p4_clockmod before continuing.
Same for NC6000 and most other 2001-2006 business notebooks. Every single P4 or PentiumM based one I have tested during that period failed thermally under Linux if you ran it on ACPI alone.
As thermal tolerances differ from model to model your mileage may vary. In your case you ended up on the better side. This is rare.
- Politics were the most popular topic for a drunken conversation around the table in the ex-Soviet Union.
- Political jokes constituted roughly 60-70% of all humour floating around. We had jokes about the fact that Brezhnev jokes cannot exist because they violate the fundamental universal constraint on the speed of light by travelling from one end of Moscow to another instantaneously.
- The situation in other ex-Warsaw block countries like Bulgaria was not any different. It went even further. Everyone was grumbling, taking the piss of the system, moaning complaining, telling political jokes. Nobody was even considering rebelling or doing something proactive against the government.
- Add to that that a lot of the literature and "formally allowed" humour like stand up comedians at the time had a lot of politics and very serious political satire inside.
- For example on the subject of what you are mentioning - scientists taking the piss of the system - just read "Monday starts on Saturday". That is present in plenty of books from that period. "Monday starts on Saturday" and "Snail on a Slope" by the Strugatcki brothers come to mind as a perfect example.
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Similarly people like Okudzhava, Zhvanecki, etc wrote all kinds of stuff that was taking the piss of the system and that was sang by people, shown in theatres and some of that even shown on TV.
What the "socialists" do not tolerate is open rebellion. That they squash straight away. They let the people grumble and vent steam (within limits) because if they clamp on that the chances for open rebellion increase dramatically. They do not have the resources to clamp on all of that either.Further to this, organising something like Tian-an-Men Square or the student strikes nowdays requires money and is usually supported by foreign resource. Been there, seen that in the ex-Soviet block. Never got my hands dirty with it though (probably should have). If China does a good job of following all suitcases with money flowing into the country prior to the Olimpics they will not need to worry about any troubles.
Any notebook worth having will put thermal management into the ACPI embedded controller firmware.
HP does not at least for 2001-2006 models (both Intel and ALI chipsets), current Core seem to work, though I have not pushed them to test properly.
IBM does not at least for 2001-2006 models except one or two of the desktop replacement class machines.
These two already constitute 30%+ of the market if not more.
I have not tested extensively with other vendors, but Sony while still working damages components so it should be added to these.
So the answer is - while you are correct that is not the reality of the market.
I will add to that - if you cannot get the statement from them in writing - record it. Tell them why you are recording and tell them that if they refuse it to be recorded you would put the refusal on record as well. It is usually enough to put a recorder on the table to bring some sanity in the game.
The only store where this does not work in the UK is Tesco. The rumour is that their managers are trained to push the case all the way to trading standards in the hope that the consumer drops it on the way.
Fair point. XP doesn't though. Neither do linux distros in their default settings except apparently the latest Suse install which I have not tested myself and which is likely not to have support for the most recent centrino chipsets anyway. For example - I have an 6 months old HP and the speedstep is not recognised by 2.6.21 so I have to use the standard p4_clockmod instead.
In theory, this mode of failure should be still under warranty because on a docking station a laptop operates at full blast (no power savings) and with the lid closed.
None of them has proper cooling in this mode. Most dissipate a significant proportion of the heat through the keyboard. I have seen Sony keyboards being literally fried by the heat from working on a docking station. So nowdays if I get a docking station from IT my first reaction is to dispose of it and replace it with a Fellowes stand so I can reuse the laptop LCD as a monitor as well.
The only way to deal with UK retailers like this is - you pull a recorder on the table and ask for the statement to be recorded for "Trading Standards purposes". No threats, not screams, no arguments. This is enough to get them into sane mode. Same for phone calls and similar for email. While I have not had that with PC World I have had similar dealings with Misco and others and the magic TS words usually works.
Overall, while IMO the laptop should be warrantied against such failure, specifically in the Linux case the warranty may indeed be void. The reason is that the power management on Linux by default has no thermal feedback. On Centrino derived laptops under Winhoze it does and it will throttle the CPU frequency if the laptop is overly hot (even if you turn the power savings off). I do not see it damaging the case though, it will most likely fry the keyboard membrane.
On a more serious note if you are someone line Korea you have to be aware of Chinese satellites, Russian satellites, Indian satellites, French satellites, Japanese satellites and British satellites besides USA satellites. For locations like Bushehr in Iran and some "interesting" places in Pakistan, Korea, China, etc this probably gives a nearly 24h coverage.
They are not.
But American companies operating in foreign countries are bound by LOCAL laws. Does American government and legal system like it or not is irrelevant.
Considering the way modern phone calls are routed I would not be surprised if this was tapped on Level3, Global Crossing or someone's else network in Germany or while delivering a call from Germany to Germany. From there on it is subject to German privacy legislation and the American company in question by violating it has forfeighted the terms of its telecoms license and its right to operate its network which it has built at a cost of 5-10 billion.
While I can understand your aim to be funny, you have missed the basic issue in question in its entirety.
Missed one more. Both entities to the conversation as per the announcement are OUTSIDE USA borders.
Did NSA use its newly acquired wiretap "cooperation" powers to make a USA company franchise operating under German jurisdiction conduct a wiretap in American favour of GERMAN internal traffic without permission under German law?
Hiding nowdays is a bit of a moot point. There are enough satellites up there to give a nearly 24h round the clock coverage for the more interesting locations.
As the French would say: "Touche, Monsieur".